by larsond | Sep 28, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
Nadia Boulanger has been championed as one of the 20th centuries foremost composition teachers. Her life has been documented, analyzed, idolized, and chronicled. However, no amount of scholarship can capture the whole essence of Nadia Boulanger. Her inner most...
by Stella Li | Sep 28, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
A production of PBS award-winning bibliography series “American Masters”, “Aaron Copland: A Self-Portrait” (1986) 1 introduces a chronological panorama of Aaron Copland’s life as a great composer, conductor, teacher and human being. An...
by Tim Apolloni | Sep 28, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
To make the big leagues like Virgil Thomson would be every composer/critic’s dream. His music was world renown as well as his critiques reaching vast audiences. His approval could propel a young artist into stardom, such as Phillip Glass, and people would accept...
by drewes | Sep 27, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
One source that is likely to be very important in my research is Rollin Smith’s Louis Vierne, Organist of the Notre Dame Cathedral.1 Rollin Smith is a well known personality in the organ world, and particularly, in organ scholarship. This particular source is...
by pruim | Sep 27, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
Even with all of the internet resources available to us at St. Olaf, researching someone with a very small virtual presence is challenging. I began with New Grove but other than a very brief paragraph about her it was unhelpful. It did not even provide sources....
by Alexandra Mauney | Sep 26, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
The person I have selected as the focus of my first research paper is dancer Bronislava Nijinska, who toured with the influential choreographer Sergei Diaghilev in his Ballets Russes dance troupe. My first step in research was to consult Oxford Music Online,[1] where...
